Teachers

Mr. Butcher

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, excluding further and higher education, what is the total number of teachers and head teachers employed in the service in the current year.

Information about the number of teachers employed in the current school year will be available shortly. Excluding further and higher education, the number of teachers employed by LEAs in England and Wales in January 1979 was:

The attached table gives the total number of overseas students at each Scottish university for 1977–78, the latest year for which information is available.The table lists countries for which there was a minimum of 10 students at at least one university.

OVERSEAS STUDENTS IN SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES 1977–78
Country of Domicile						Aberdeen	Dundee	Edinburgh	Glasgow	Heriot-Watt	St. Andrews	Strathclyde	Stirling	Scotland Total†
Australia	…	…	…	…	…	—	—	13	—	—	—	—	—	38
Canada	…	…	…	…	…	21	—	54	25	—	37	—	—	158
Ghana	…	…	…	…	…	12	—	—	—	—	—	12	—	35
Hong Kong	…	…	…	…	…	—	36	18	27	—	—	22	—	119
India	…	…	…	…	…	—	—	10	—	—	—	22	—	53
Kenya	…	…	…	…	…	13	—	11	—	—	—	—	—	51
Lesotho	…	…	…	…	…	—	—	10	—	—	—	—	—	12
Malaya	…	…	…	…	…	—	—	—	—	—	—	211	—	220
Malaysia^*	…	…	…	…	…	50	63	40	121	61	—	—	22	361
Mauritius	…	…	…	…	…	—	—	—	14	—	—	—	—	41
Nigeria	…	…	…	…	…	15	—	21	19	16	—	58	—	148
Singapore	…	…	…	…	…	—	11	—	—	36	—	132	—	199
Brazil	…	…	…	…	…	—	—	12	—	—	—	—	—	32
Chile	…	…	…	…	…	—	—	—	12	—	—	—	—	28
West Germany		…	…	…	…	14	—	24	18	—	—	—	—	86
Greece	…	…	…	…	…	11	19	19	39	11	—	50	15	171
Iceland	…	…	…	…	…	—	—	18	—	—	—	—	—	30
Iran	…	…	…	…	…	17	15	20	14	17	1	20	—	113
Iraq	…	…	…	…	…	—	36	15	26	13	—	66	—	177
Japan	…	…	…	…	…	—	—	11	—	—	—	—	—	23
Jordan	…	…	…	…	…	—	15	—	—	—	—	—	—	33
Mexico	…	…	…	…	…	—	—	13	—	—	—	23	—	39
Norway	…	…	…	…	…	—	—	15	—	94	—	16	—	143
Pakistan	…	…	…	…	…	—	—	—	16	—	—	—	—	56
Zimbabwe Rhodesia			…	…	…	—	—	—	17	—	—	—	—	57
Saudi Arabia		…	…	…	…	—	—	—	14	—	—	—	—	33
Sudan	…	…	…	…	…	—	10	26	13	—	—	15	—	74
Egypt	…	…	…	…	…	—	—	—	13	—	—	—	—	72
United States of America			…	…	…	51	—	212	22	11	106	—	39	450
Venezuela	…	…	…	…	…	—	—	—	—	—	—	17	—	36
Other including not known				…	…	195	144	289	173	102	166	225	132	861
Total	…	…	…	…	…	399	349	868	566	361	309	889	208	3,949
^* Students not allocated separately to Malaya,Sabah or Sarawak.
† The totals for each country include students at universities where there were fewer than 10 students from the country

Volume 974: debated on Wednesday 21 November 1979